Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tenancy

Tenancy , noun

[Compare Old French tenace, Late Latin tenentia. See Tenant.]

(a)
(Law) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
(b)
(Law) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another. — Blount. Blackstone. Wharton